From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 1 22:57: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B6137B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:57:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14YjfU-0000JD-00; Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:08:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3A9F46D0.B74159DA@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 00:08:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth P. Stox" Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM's radar screen? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > > On 02-Mar-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > > remember that IBM owns whistle (until they finish > > integrating it into different parts of IBM > > and it dissappears) (burp) > > and have some FreeBSD experience there. > > The problem is that 93.7% of IBM probably has no idea that IBM owns whistle. Make that 99.99937% of IBM, it's a BIG company. > I remember a discussion I had with an IBM sales rep working at the NCC > conference in the early 1980's. He had no idea that IBM was selling systems > that ran UNIX. At the time they were selling a 68K based lab system ( > the 9000 ?? ) The CS-9000, M68K + some weird limited operating system. It was developed and sold by the IBM Instrumentation division, and had an IEEE-488 port. Remember those? > and I think were still selling the Series 1. I'm sure that things > haven't changed much since. Or System/36, or one of those blecherous little monstrosities. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message